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Arredondo, second former Uvalde school district police officer indicted in Robb Elementary massacre

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The former Uvalde school district police chief and a second former officer of the district were indicted Thursday in connection to the failed police response to the May 2022 shooting massacre at Robb Elementary School.

San Antonio man sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for selling fentanyl-laced pills that led to woman’s deathPete Arredondo, chief of the Uvalde school district police, on a dirt road on the outskirts of Uvalde on June 8.– and CNN, Pete Arredondo, who was fired months after 19 students and two teachers were killed inside the school by a lone gunman, faces a charge of child endangerment, sources told KSAT Thursday.

The charges come more than five months after a grand jury in Uvalde County was first impaneled to review the case for possible criminal charges.Arredondo shouldered much of the blame from the public in the aftermath of the shooting after Texas Department of Public Safety officials said he assumed command of the scene and made the decision not to breach the classroom containing the gunman.

 

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